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Daily Archives: 2007-02-25

The Steep Approach to Literary Acceptance

Posted on 2007-02-25 by Martin McCallion
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A couple of articles (Times, Indy) on Banksie’s new novel refer to it being five years since his last one. Err, no: The Algebraist came out in 2004 (which is longer ago than I thought, but still less than three years).

Oh, wait, no, of course: that wasn’t a novel; that was just sci-fi.

Bah!

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